Road Trip to Utah!

I spent a week playing with my Mom in Utah... it was really really sweet! We both flew in and met in Salt Lake City, where we rented the "smallest" of the Cruise America RVs! It was a first for us to be in an RV... pretty exciting indeed!! We headed down to Bryce Canyon, got some nice weather, then some snow, and then more snow! But we needed more than that to turn around... little RV was snow resistant... and so were we :D After a few days, Brendan drove from Colorado to Utah to meet us. All three of us drove to Zion, where the weather got much better... by the 3rd day in Zion, it was flip-flops and swim suits, in the river, hard to believe since we wore all the layers we brought with us the first three days of our road trip! It was lots of fun... There is nothing like hanging out with your Mom!!!! (or at least with mine!!) :)))))) We had a blast! Here are a few pictures, enjoy!

PS: tomorrow and the day after will be my last two nights at St Mary's, and I am absolutely excited to move! I am less excited about scrubbing the sink and shower at home in Glenwood, and haven't packed the laptop yet, so I am procrastinating the cleaning session, so that I can type up a little post for you guys!! However, not all cleaning will be boring: the thought of playing with the rental carpet cleaning machine is actually exciting... to me. "The Rug Doctor" it's called! We'll see what a nurse can do with that! Much love, -Chloe.

Classic...

If you don't know who Tom Waits is, time to discover:


Great Song:


Don't drop that cig:

Big Friday!

OK! We're moving! We are going to move to Boulder at the end of April. We have a nice little apartment waiting for us in Boulder May 1st. We signed the lease a couple of weeks ago, when Brendan got a job offer with Pridemark. He is still waiting on 2 more deals, with Denver Paramedics and West Metro Fire Dpt, and will pick if he can. For me, I was still waiting for an official job offer. I just got "the" HR call on Friday, and was offered a full time night position in the ER at Denver Health (which is the new name for Denver General Hospital)... a busy trauma level I hospital, and I am A-BSO-LU-TELY psyched!! I am very happy to be able to leave Grand Junction and St Mary's Hospital. I am bummed to leave the nurses I worked with, because they are the ones who helped me get started in nursing, and all of them were great and fun people, but I need change. The commute and time I spend away from Brendan were getting heavy on both of us, and there is no reason for us to keep it that way if we have other options... so we're trying something else :P It'll be a pretty big change again, but we both really want it, so it should be fun! My commute will be significantly shorter and they are paying nurses much better in Denver, so that will be nice! In Denver Brendan should be able to get some good paramedic experience, which he is very ready for. We are totally looking forward to working in Denver and hope that Brendan can get a job with Denver Paramedics, as they operate out of Denver Health ER... :))))) We'll find out at the end of the month.

I get a week off now, and I am going to meet up with my Mom In Salt Lake City on Monday morning, and we're headed for Zion and Bryce National parks, on board of a little RV! Brendan will meet us halfway through the week. We'll take pictures... Then I get 2 more weeks at St Mary's, and then we'll be moving! We'll keep you posted, it is all going to come very quick!
-Chloe

Joe's Valley

Well, as usual, we got snowed out of Joe's! We don't quite have the weather figured out for this place yet ;) We met up with Steve and Natasha from SF though, and that was well worth being snowed out! We got 2 days of climbing in, a freezing day, and a nice one, and then the storm chased us out. Here are a few pics from Joe's.
We were bundled up most of the time, and didn't take many pictures, but here are a few. It was so windy the gas station sign blew off. And I kicked Brendan's butt at his favorite "pre-K game"... he can't win quite yet :P

Stevo is working hard, and because it was so freaking cold, it hurts bad when you fall off sharp little holds on a V10!

We have a whole lot of things to do to get ready for action in May. We'll keep you guys posted, but we started packing already, and we're super psyched for change! xoxo

-Chloe :)